Float Some Ideas With Democracy Lab at Grand Army Plaza
A bubble-like pavilion will be touching down by the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch for a week of civic engagement. Spacebuster -- a mobile, inflatable pavilion that can fit 100 people -- will be set up in...
View ArticleThe Grand Army Plaza Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch Lights Up the Night
While traffic hurled around Grand Army Plaza Monday night a small group cast their eyes on the memorial arch as its usual purple glow was augmented with a new brilliance. The temporary new look was a...
View ArticleKick Off Hanukkah Celebrations With the Largest Menorah in Brooklyn
It's been presiding over Hanukkah celebrations at Grand Army Plaza for over thirty years and it's time once again for the lighting of the 32-foot menorah. The first night of Hanukkah kicks off on...
View ArticleCrafting the Ideal: The City Beautiful Movement in Brooklyn
Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2009. Read the original here. At the turn of the 20th century, reformers in American cities were aware that the great advances of industry and...
View ArticleA Human Fly Once Inched Up the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch
On a late September afternoon in 1918, a behatted gentleman dressed all in white began inching his way up the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch while a crowd of onlookers gazed up at his antics from...
View ArticleProspect Park Installation From Artist Mary Mattingly Addresses City’s...
The subject of Brooklyn-based artist Mary Mattingly’s latest sculpture, “Public Water,” currently on view at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park, has long been a topic of interest and source...
View ArticleBrooklyn Students Rally at Grand Army Plaza to Demand Gun Reform
“School shootings are not the norm! We need immediate reform!” That was the message on Friday, June 3, when a group of around 40 middle and high school children embedded themselves in Grand Army Plaza...
View ArticleCity Mulls Car-Free Redesign for Grand Army Plaza to Boost Pedestrian Safety
The Department of Transportation is considering remaking Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza as a car-free public space, in what would arguably be the Adams administration’s biggest shakeup yet to the...
View ArticleKick Off Hanukkah Celebrations With Some Brooklyn Menorah Lightings
Brooklyn communities are marking the first night of Hanukkah this weekend with menorah lightings, food and music. The first night of Hanukkah on Sunday, December 18 brings the the grand lighting of the...
View ArticleProspect Park Alliance Kicks Off Restoration of Soldiers’ and Sailors’...
Prospect Park Alliance, the nonprofit group that operates the park, is beginning a restoration project on the historic Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch at Grand Army Plaza. The operation, led by the...
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